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Some of our students visited Exeter Quay this week, with the Residential team’s Sports Club. Our Residential students take part in lots of activites and clubs in their free time, and Sports Club is always a popular choice! As well as the usual sports like football and swimming, students get to try out lots of new […]

In April, Deaf Academy College student Kenny undertook work experience as the Academy’s ‘Marketing Assistant’. Kenny is studying Level 1 Digital Media with Exeter College. He has worked really hard and shown us that he has a strong talent in visual media. Kenny said: “This work experience has helped me to learn new things in marketing. I […]

Over the past month, Academy student Tom has been attending work experience at Exeter St David’s station. In this time Tom has learnt about health and safety at the station, customer care and assistance (helping vulnerable people on and off trains), learning about the train network and how the signalling system works and also was […]

Earlier this week Academy student Andrew found out that Exeter College Catering Department, where Andrew is studying Level 2 Catering, have won an AA College Rosette! This is a fantastic accolade, and reflects the hard work of all the students and staff, including Andrew, who was working front of house when the inspectors visited. You can […]

At the beginning of May we held a PSHE Day around the theme of Social Media. PSHE stands for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education, which we shape around real life experiences that are relevant to our young people. We were incredibly lucky to have visits from some social media experts: Hermon and Heroda – […]

If you missed the BBC Spotlight interview with our rugby star William, you can watch it here. Academy student William has recently returned from Sydney, Australia, after being selected to play for the Welsh team in the biggest Deaf Rugby 7’s tournament the world has seen – and winning! This was the first major international Deaf rugby tournament […]

College student Ann is studying Small Animal Care level 1 at Bicton College, which includes a work placement at World of Country Life.  Ann started her work placement recently, and has been really enjoying getting stuck in! Her confidence and working knowledge are growing – she is very enthusiastic and keen to show off the skills she […]

17-year-old Academy Foundation Learning student Harley and TA Rachelle have been volunteering every Wednesday at National Trust Killerton as room guides. Harley loves history and likes to attend history club here at the Academy, so he really enjoys learning the history of Killerton and meeting all the visitors while volunteering. Some people are not sure how to react […]

Do you remember Rachel Goswell’s tour tambourine, which she auctioned to raise money for the Academy? The money raised went towards refurbishing our courtyard into an amazing new sensory garden, and during the week we put the finishing touches to it! It’s looking beautiful – a big thanks to Rachel for coming along to help us with […]